Author: James T. Walker
Date: 18:54:43 11/01/04
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On November 01, 2004 at 09:57:18, Albert Silver wrote: >On November 01, 2004 at 09:35:30, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>On November 01, 2004 at 08:58:38, Albert Silver wrote: >> >>>Err, you mean the opposite no doubt. Hiarcs had the hardware advantage. >> >>Not so. An Athlon 1800+ is faster than a 2.0Ghz P4. Benchmark Crafty or any >>other program on them and you will see. >> >>Peter > >Athlons do tend to favor most chess engines, but whether that is enough to >compensate a close to 500 MHz speed difference is really not clear to me. Each >engine is different, so if I wanted to judge this case, I'd test Chess Tiger >2004 specifically, but in theory I'd favor the faster processor. > > Albert Also see: http://www.beepworld.de/members39/computerschach2/chessmarks.htm
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